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Book on Systemic Conflict Transformation now available

We are pleased to announce the publication of our book The Non-Linearity of Peace Processes – Theory and Practice of Systemic Conflict Transformation edited by Daniela Körppen, Norbert Ropers and Hans J. Giessmann.

This is the first comprehensive volume analysing the value added by integrating systemic thinking into peacebuilding theory and practice. The aim of this book is to link the most recent debates in the peacebuilding field, e.g. on liberal peace, on the non-linearity of conflict dynamics and on bridging the attribution gap, with various systemic discourses, discussing the extent to which systemic thinking and methods are helpful to further develop existing approaches to conflict transformation.
Against the background of different case studies, practitioners and scholars frame their various understandings of systemic thinking and present a great variety of systemic concepts, such as systems theory, systemic action research and constellation work.

Details: The Non-Linearity of Peace Processes – Theory and Practice of Systemic Conflict Transformation, edited by Daniela Körppen, Norbert Ropers and Hans J. Giessmann,
Barbara Budrich Publishers, Opladen / Farmington Hill, 2011, 273 pp.
Pb. 33,00 € (D), 34,00 € (A), 45,50 SFr,US$47.95, GBP 29.95, ISBN 978-3-86649-406-0

To order, please visit the publisher’s website or, for example,
Amazon.